Least Efficient Homes by Local Authority

Mean emissions per square metre per year in kg of CO²

Existing Homes Over Time

New Homes Over Time

Indicative Total Emissions by Local Authority

Total emissions for each Local Authority in Mega Tonnes of CO²

Total Emissions broken down by Tenure

Total Emissions broken down by Property Type

Indicative Home Energy Usage by Local Authority

Total energy used in GWh

Existing Homes Energy Use Over Time

New Homes Energy Use Over Time

Number and Type of Assessments

Assessments by Local Authority

Data Sources and Notes on the data

Local Authority and postcode Lookup Datasets:
https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/geography/our-products/scottish-postcode-directory/2022-2
https://statistics.gov.scot/data/data-zone-lookup
Domestic Energy Performance Certificates Data: http://statistics.gov.scot/data/domestic-energy-performance-certificates
There are 1,596,371 records up to Q3 2022 There are 5125 where the Postcode does not match due to data errors or the homes have just been built and the postcode directory has not been updated yet. 3497 records are ignored for having a negative figure in the potential improvement field - indicating that by delivering the improvements listed the emissions will go up.

Author: Original Code by Stephanie Duncan

This interactive dashboard gives insights and trends on home energy in Scotland between 2012 - 2020.

The code I wrote to produce this dashboard can be found on my Github Repository

The data used to carry out analysis for this dashboard is open source and can be found in the links below.

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Data Sources

Statistics.gov.scot

Home Energy Performance Certificates Data

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Code adapted to markdown and updated to include more recent data by Euan Ross